FARGO and BARTON FINK are my favorites. The Coen brothers are hot and bold for me (although I definitely want to see HAIL CEASAR). I was glued to the screen with FARGO, but my eyes glazed over during BLOOD SIMPLE and HUDSUCKER.

I'll be the first here and say that Hudsucker Proxy is actually my favorite. I've never gotten the hostility it's gotten, outside of the widespread assumption that financial failure equals artistic failure. In no particular order I'd round it out with Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou, Fargo, and A Serious Man.

Barton Fink, Fargo, Miller's Crossing, The Man Who Wasn't There, Blood Simple & No Country. Not in that particular order, and for very different reasons. Least favourite was probably Intolerable Cruelty.

SHOT IN DETROIT

CONCRETE ANGEL

And this...

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” ― C.S. Lewis

Patricia (Patti) Abbott

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About Me

Patricia Abbott is the author of more than 125 stories that have appeared online, in print journals and in various anthologies. She is the author of two print novels CONCRETE ANGEL (2015) and SHOT IN DETROIT (2016)(Polis Books). CONCRETE ANGEL was nominated for an Anthony and Macavity Award in 2016.